Learning Together: Participatory Tools for Community Engagement

The last decade has seen a growing recognition of the need for resource management and conservation programs to take account of the social and economic life, and to recognise the needs and aspirations of villagers. The Milne Bay Community-based Coastal and Marine Conservation Program (CMCP) that you are now employed on as a VILLAGE TRAINER aims to build links between the wellbeing of targeted villages and resource management and conservation activities by providing these villages with support for village-based resource management.